yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Paten:
Use the Transparent Clock Flippers and Transparent Clock Background in the first post in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654098
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kabuk1:
Sweet, thanks guys! These worked perfectly :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hgalanos:
Hide clock and hide flippers workd perfect. Been after a hide clock flippers for a long time. Just stumbled upon this.

I have new 1.72.831 ROM.

I can finally see my whole wallapers. Looks awesome.

Thanks again.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooljonL:
I've had my Desire for a couple of months now and I love it. I'm still running stock eclair on there (T-Mobile UK), but I'm going away in a week and will want to use my iPod touch to get on some apps I have, so I was looking into wireless tethering.

Now, I've rooted a G2 and loaded custom firmware before, so I have a vague idea what I'm doing and I'm sure the tuts on here will help me out, but reading over them, there doesn't seem to be a way to root my phone without losing data.

Basicially, I want to root it at the least but keep ALL of my data on there. Once it's rooted, I'll have no problems loading custom ROMs on there as I can do a NAND backup of my current data, play with custom ROMs then restore the backup, right?

So my questions summed up:

Can I root without losing my current data? This includes everything, I want my phone as is after the root.

Will a NAND backup take an image of the current phone data's state?

Can I restore the NAND backup image and carry on using the phone as if nothing ever happened?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A|ex:
Rooting will cause your phone to lose data, you need a program called MyBackup Pro (you can use the trial to backup/ restore) until you have rooted and can install titanium backup / rom manager.

yeah the recovery mode nand backup will backup everything so you can restore your phone system back to normal.

the HTC sense backup feature will backup a handful of data settings on your phone, even if you do lose everything and still have your sd you can reflash back to stock and it will restore them 'handful' of settings it saved. Of the top of my head i think it didnt backup screen settings (Display settings) and application data. I do recall the stock htc sense backing up sms, contacts, wifi etc.
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
Hello everyone, So I download it double twist to sync my itunes playlist with my macbook and when I check the player in the phone, the music is not organize at all, has anybody experience this or knows of different solution to sync my Vibrant with itunes ?

Thank you all.
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
The DoubleTwist solution seemed to not be very useful for me. I don't want to sync 'playlists', I want to move my meticulously-detailed albums collection over.

I ended up enabling USB-debugging to mount the drives, and then moved the albums over, like it's 1997. Click and drag.

As an iPhone owner, it's really hard to accept this. The iPhone integrates seamlessly with the Mac platform and ecosystem. But I guess this is the price you pay

The Vibrant's music player is nicer than others, but it is no iPod app, that's for sure. Album art is often missing for no reason at all (but will sometimes re-appear without warning) and the organization preferences don't really seem to matter.

I'm not really sure if there is a better way to do it, but I feel your pain. :(
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
I have spent crazy hours and so far no luck, Hopefully an update will fix his in the mean time I'm using Morplayer from the market not as fancy as the Vibrant's player that's for sure..

Thank you.
[Vibrant General] DaMaDo:
I use tunesync to copy music and playlists over from my PC. It does it all automatically over wifi...need it on the PC and on the Vibrant.

I then use bTunes to play the music on the Vibrant...all playlists show up correctly.
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
Your solution hopefully works, can you try to help ?

So I have tunesync listening trhu port 9090 in my mac, so when I test connection

Computer name set up OK

Connect to wifi (name) OK

Get ip for computer FAILED, where do I enter my ip address ?

So when I go to playlist sync, " empty " what am I missing ?

Thanks
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
Okay, I've had my phone for a day or two and right off the bat I noticed that even though the phone had no bars of coverage, I actually had coverage and a good enough signal to boot.

I then found myself on XDA reading up on how to lock 3G since the old Nexus One/myTouch etc. trick doesn't work on the Vibrant.

I then came across someones post that leads us to a hidden menu

This menu has a wealth of information that, most of it I can decipher BUT I did find this lovely menu that lead me to the Vibrant's TRUE -dBm reading. The bars are WRONG, the Phone Information Testing menu is WRONG, and the phone has reception that is on par with the Motorola CLIQ I replaced it with. After -103 or so dBm, this shows as NO coverage (0 bars).

Here are the steps for those of us unfamiliar with it.

I want to note that the G1 doesn't "drop" 3G as much because the antenna is at the top (you'll see it when you take off the battery cover) so it has an easier time grabbing a signal because your hand isn't attenuating the signal. Do the same for the Vibrant or any other phone and you'll see your bars jump.

Final word: Good reception. Better than Samsung's of the past. I noticed that when I went to a few key locations and maintained a signal where my previous Samsung's fell off the cellular grid.
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
I bet it'll be fixed when they release 2.2 if they don't do it immediately, hopefully anyways.
[Vibrant General] zoid_99:
Thanks for the info! I think you are right that the software isn't getting the real readings.
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
Definetly software I have speeds also when my bars drop if they even do when I'm in a poor signal area....... I love this phone.....
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
-100 under the RSSI readout is where the bars go to zero it seems. I had to get it just right though. Normally have 1 or 2 bars with the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
I'm experiencing issues with the 3G signal dropping if I even touch the phone. If I switch to EDGE-only, I find it's impossible for me to lose any bars. Same on my 2G iPhone (no signal loss on 2G).

Of course, this begs the question of how the 'bars' are measured. But it would appear as if the 3G reception is not stellar on the Vibrant. When I'm not touching the device, I can reach -91dBm. When the device is held, it immediately jumps to -111 and gives me a reading of zero bars.
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
For me its on par with the nexus one except the n1 would drop to edge much quicker.although the vibrant drops bars sometimes the speeds are the same and call quality sounds just fine.i think its just reading wrong like OP says... No issue for me.sometimes I can't even get one bar to drop.
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
Again, as with the N1, it's hard to tell if this is a carrier issue or a hardware issue. T-Mo's 3G network is by no means up-to-par with their 2G network. But in my area, 3G is marked as 'Best' on their maps. This makes sense, considering I live in T-Mo's headquarters coverage, with HSDPA+.

But even with all of this coverage, I am getting 0-2 bars on 3G, max. This bothers me. :(
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
It's not hard to tell at all, go under the service menu and check your signal strength.. the proof is right there. How can anyone be unsure when I took screenshots of my Vibrant, in an active call - showing no bars of coverage - -0dBm (no service) and then under the service menu it says I have -105 dBm of signal strength and It was usually much higher than that. I had to illustrate my point though. -111dBm under the Phone Info menu is like -98dBm under the Service Menu.
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
I understand what you're saying, but, I'm getting "signal lost, retry?" pop-ups when holding the phone while 3G is on.

So it would seem it's not just a software misread of signal-to-bars?
[Vibrant General] degeneration:
That has nothing to do with signal, as I can get that with plenty of bars, or on wifi... That is something else that has popped up for people (especially in the market)...

but any way, on 3g with zero bars I am actually getting slightly faster D/L speeds than I did with my g1 (probably upload too but I don't remember what I used to be getting)

Went from low to mid 600s up to right around 800 (or 790 up to 850)
[Vibrant General] unxconformed:
I think the software explanation is completely bogus.

It might be true that the phone doesn't report the signal correctly. But the fact that as soon as you hold the phone, the signal changes, implies that this is not a software issue at all. Your phone's software has no way of knowing if a hand is touching it or not. The only thing the phone know is that the signal strength is changing which is a physical effect, not a software effect.

I did multiple tests using the network speed test applications and all showed that the phone's signal was significantly affected by me naturally holding the phone.

For example

If I held the phone awkwardly so that I didn't cover up the antenna at all I got these results:

Download: 736kbps

Upload: 720kbps

holding naturally:

Download: 133kbps

upload: 3kbps

I've repeated this test multiple times and always get very similar results. There has not been a single instance where holding the phone naturally got me anywhere near the same up and down rates.

So, case in point, this is not a software issue, this is a bad placement issue.
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
I think we all get it is losing some signal, all phones will when your covering the antenna in a not so great of coverage area... I think were getting at that its reading wrong when it does drop. Where as instead of just losing one or two bars its showing full signal loss, but that can't be totally accurate because of still getting good speeds and calls not dropping...

Yes it loses some signal but not as much as I think the readings make it out to be....
[Vibrant General] unxconformed:
Fair enough, I guess we are sort of talking to different points, but that doesn't change the fact that my upload and download speeds are absolutely dismal when I hold the phone naturally. No matter what they change in the software, this won't get fixed and the antenna issue is still a problem. I wouldn't care if the signal dropped a bit, but the extent that it does affect me is enough to make me want to return the phone. I mean did you see the difference in my upload and download rates? It was between 5.5x to 240x worse when I held the phone naturally. That is pretty terrible, especially when I compare it to my G1 (which had a far superior spot for the antenna in my opinion).
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
I lose some speeds but not as bad as you... Being in a real strong signal I can't even make the bar drop one...

I do agree the antenna is in a bad spot just like is was on the n1.. I saw a video before I got mine and was pretty sure it was also gonna be at the bottom and sure enough it was ....

Edit: I got so used to holding the n1 at the top so much that this don't even bug me...although I believe the body even shields some signal since its basically aiming at your body...
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
These are two completely different and separate issues.
[Vibrant General] t1n0m3n:
0db would actually be crazy awesome signal. Not "no signal" as previously mentioned. That this phone is saying 0db is "no signal" is obviously a glitch.
[Vibrant General] zaelia:
I ran the speed test both ways and got much faster download speeds with zero bars and my hand covering the antenna than when holding it at the top and full bars
[Vibrant General] ArcticWolf91:
I hope that it is. It annoys me that my mom's 30 dollar phone gets full bars while this 500 dollar phone drops to one or two.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] gavinbrad71:
Hi all,

Does anyone know of an app that posts to Twitter the current playing track? (With a press)

One that is configurable to say what you want.

I use Tune Wiki which does this,the Blip is great, but it adds allsorts of other text around the Tweet. (Which annoys me)

I've tried TweetNP but as I am on 2.1 it doesn't work -it is 1.5 or 1.6 compatible only. (It would have been great)

Thanks, Gav.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Sucalakafufu:
TweetNP does work on 2.1
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] xmaskx:
perhaps scrobbling to last.fm and let last.fm tweet works also?!
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] jsteez:
I have an Evo running 2.2 and TweetNP does not work with either the default music app or meridan like TweetNP says they support.

I would like an app that can Tweet now playing on an Evo as well.
[EVO 4G General] vbyt:
Not sure if this is a wide spread issue or just a bug with rom/theme, but....

When you make a call with bluetooth and the phone is plugged in(in my case the computer), and then hang up...the buttons on the bottom will not light up until I disconnect the usb cable. It happened to me a few days ago and I could not figured out what was causing it until I made another call today in the same manner. Now I can replicate it at will.

Not really a big issue, but wondering if anyone else can replicate this?

1.47 rooted

DC 3.2.3 w/Aloysius Theme
[EVO 4G General] sandrshe:
I'm not rooted and i have seen this problem. I'm 1.47 OTA. Happens when on charger and have to disconnect to get buttons to light up. very inconvenient at nighttime! Hope a fix comes soon.
[EVO 4G General] s84471:
I've noticed the problem when my Evo is fully charged and still connected to the charger. Then if I turn the screen on, the softkeys don't light up until I remove the charger and reconnect it.
[EVO 4G General] marctronixx:
The buttons don't light up when plugged in. That's the default behavior.

__

Thumbed wirelessly from my HTC EVO 4G thru Sprint PCS. Please excuse any typos.
[EVO 4G General] kperry1911:
It's NOT a problem. It has to do with the light sensors. In bright enough conditions the keys usually remain unlit. However, in the dark or low light the keys will light up.

Try testing it out by covering / uncovering the light sensors at the top of the screen just under the indicator light while the phone is unplugged. :)

I noticed that when the phone is plugged in, if the keys are off covering the sensors will trigger the keys to light up and in my case remain lit until I unplug.

-kp
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hand76:
I updated to unrevoked 3 yesterday and found this LazyList folder on my sd card after. Is it needed for anything or can I get rid of it?

Thanks in advance.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igotroot:
I was told its created by apps such as ApPlanet , and Launch Pro
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ed Zachary:
Probably several more apps use it.

LazyList is a method used often in Java programming to build an array, or list, of objects to be traversed by an application.

Google would be your friend in looking further into the LazyList construct.

The apps likely create a LazyList folder on the SD card and use it as temp storage for creating/using lazy lists.

You can blow the folder away, but it will be created again when an app creates a lazy list.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russian392:
Its all explained on this blog, im not gona retype it though.

argue4android.blogspot.com

hope this helped
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hand76:
Lol oh ok thanks.

For the last two years since I made this thread I have not been able to sleep.

I even forgot I made this thread. :p
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] russian392:
glad i could help. check out some other good posts there.

oh by the way i actually own that blog lol just dont like to boast
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Check it out, dudes

http://wireless.amazon.com/Samsung-Captivate-Android-Phone-AT/dp/B003TLMQG8

By the way, I found that link by searching with google. Actually searching wireless.amazon.com for the captivate brings up nothing. (?)

edit: I haven't tried ordering from that page, since I'm still debating whether to keep this Aria or not, so use it at your own risk. Certainly looks legit though..
[Captivate General] NOSintake:
$600 off contract?!?! What is wrong with these people? Good find though. I've never heard of that site before
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
I got my Aria from that same site, except it was a very reasonable $50 with a family contract extension.

But I agree, something is afoot. Either their pricing is way off, or the tech blogs have been misinformed about the Captivate's launching price. I heard 340 was the off contract price, but that doesn't really make much sense considering the Aria's off contract price is 380, and the N1 was like 540.. Who knows?
[Captivate General] tdusen:
The $149 price is for a new contract. Contract extension price is $224.
[Captivate General] YeaItsSlo:
that **** always pisses me off, im not a new customer but i do have an upgrade and im out of contract.. give me a deal as well as new customers!
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Yeah seriously, I always wondered about that too - what's stopping someone off-contract from just closing the account and opening a new one the next day for the extra discount? Unless you're grandfathered into some unlimited plan you want to hang on to, I don't see how they could stop you from doing it.
[Captivate General] dsjr2006:
Your account must be closed for 60 days in order for the system not to recognize you as a new customer. For example, if you port your number to Sprint for 45 days and decide to go back to AT&T you can pick up right where you left off. It's very easy for them to stop you from doing it and they will. Trust me I've tried it.
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] D0C808:
I have a sprint touch pro 2 trying to flash it to metro pcs. BUT I ran to a wall. I loaded the 0024.prl( and tried others) on it from corolada. but everytime I call *228 it states "welcome to verizon wireless programming" My question is simple. How can I make it work for metro pcs and not Verizon???

I think it is roaming(because it has a pic of a "world" (enegry rom) on top of the phone. How do i turn that off?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] BODYRESTORE:
it is the 2003.prl that works for metro pcs
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snake411:
I finally got my phone rooted again and i dont want to loose that. So, im sure there is a way

to disable ur phone from checking for ota updates.

Plz tell me how
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrDSL:
You rooted your phone but can't find this? lol

settings/system updates/HTC software update

uncheck it and confirm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snake411:
thank you i appreciate that, and yes i am an idiot and a noob at this...but im learning

*This was posted from my Evo 4G*
[Droid Incredible General] exigent:
Hi there,

I seem to have gotten myself into trouble here... I rooted my DI, and then proceeded to install the last nightly build of CyanogenMod 6. I decided to revert to my backup, so I booted into recovery and choose nandroid and chose my backup. It loaded the backup, however now I can't boot my phone. It's stuck on the white loading screen that says "HTC incredible". Also, for some reason I can't connect the phone to my PC. If the phone is powered off, and USB is plugged in, the light on top shows it charging. However as soon as I turn the phone on the light turns off! The device never shows up in the device manager for some reason. I've tryed to wipe data\factory reset and wipe cache partition.

Another thing, I have the errors below in the recovery menu:

E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log

E:Cant' mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (file exists)

How can I get my device recognized by my PC??
[Droid Incredible General] exigent:
I was thinking I could plug the SD card into my PC and put a ZIP on it to run, is it possible to put a ROM image in a ZIP and have clockwork run it?
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
So I may jump ship from the N1 to the Vibrant. On the N1, in less than ten minutes I can run a nandroid backup, flash a new kernel, new radio and a new rom. In another 3-4 minutes, I can switch back. I've literally switched kernels >3 times/day before. How much different will things be on the Vibrant? Is it harder to do these things? Is there as much risk?

Thanks
[Vibrant General] cojonesx:
right now no one knows, there is no custom kernels, custom recovery, custom roms, etc
[Vibrant General] gTen:
There are custom roms and you can easily root the device...but it will obviously take some time to reach N1's customization...
[Vibrant General] ultra spikey:
I've had my G1(I know, not the N1) since day 1, and I've been flashing roms since day one. The only reason I flashed roms was because I felt the G1 was lacking in a lot of things. Now that I have the Vibrant, I feel like there's no need to flash a different rom. It's already pretty fast, and I actually like the touchwiz UI. The UI doesnt completely take over the Android interface, it's more like adding extra little features.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
Exactly, plus the Black/Blue color scheme is far better looking to me over stock Android. TouchWiz is not like Sense or previous generations of the skin and that's a good thing.
[Vibrant General] blueman9:
Ill second that. I am really enjoying my touch wiz interface and I didn't think I would. That being said I miss my app drawer that slid up from the bottom.
[Vibrant General] Jon C:
I don't know much about flashing to different ROMs yet, but I can give you an overview of the TouchWiz experience from my viewpoint.

Coming from an iPhone, I really like TouchWiz 3.0. And believe me when I tell you: that was their goal with the UI. It screams Apple, in layout and function. But of course, it ultimately feels a bit like an imitation in some areas. I feel like they rushed TouchWiz 3.0 out of the door.

The Clocks and Alarms app is much better than the iPhone's, which is something I was not at all expecting. It's really quite nice. The calendar app is about on par, in terms of layout. The upper hand is that this syncs OTA with Google's cloud services. The music player is very 'iPod-like', but is ultimately a rush job (embedded album art does not work very often and so forth).

All things considered, it's a really nice UI for Android.

That said, there are some really basic functions which did not make the transition from stock Android. For example: you cannot fully edit contacts in the 'Contacts' app. You cannot delete them, you cannot add custom ringtones. Coming from the iPhone, where I had meticulously completed the profiles of every contact with an obscene amount of info and custom ringtones, this is annoying.

There are a few 'little things' like that, which really matter to me. And this has kind of soured the experience for me, making me second-guess my decision. To be honest, I'm still sort of on the fence over this of the N1 as my iPhone replacement.

The grey area for me is in Android 3.0's release. Google has stated that they're going to overhaul the UI. The idea is that they want to make it more user-friendly, to make the use of custom skins less prevalent. Well, I'm all for this. Trouble is: will these handset manufacturers adopt it, considering their vested interests in their custom experiences?

Samsung's UI is definitely my favorite out of Sense, MotoBlur and the lot. But I'd be lying if I said that I didn't wish for a Nexus One for the security of owning the only unlocked stock device.

Hope that helps...
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
Give it some time and stock Android will be on the Vibrant. Thats the great thing about Android and Xda.